Yahoo and Disrupt Space presents a celebration of art, culture and technology in this one of a kind opportunity for collectors and crypto-art fans to engage with eclectic visual representations of diverse European stories, deeply moving personal narratives and extraordinary artistic creations made with different techniques and styles. Available to purchase only on SuperRare.
Black Art. Black Stories. Black Voices. represents Yahoo’s ongoing pledge to elevate Black voices in the art and technology industries. Yahoo has commissioned 8 artists from Disrupt Space and together with Kaleidoscope guided these artists through a cutting edge, digital transformation into the crypto art space and NFT community. In partnership with SuperRare, Yahoo is creating a platform for their unique stories and voices to be heard.
Gus Brooks-Simpson is an artist born and raised in London who is of Jamaican descent, his work explores themes and concepts that humans have engaged with since conception.
Read moreLola Betiku - better known by the moniker ‘Labet’ - is a self-taught Nigerian-British painter based in East London. Labet’s work serves as a figurative and abstract diary which explores themes of identity and representation.
Read moreSekai Machache is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist and curator based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self.
Read moreIsis is an Afrofuturist whose work explores core African history and near-future speculation. She embraces provocation as part of the process of negotiating language and meaning.
Read morePauline Boyenga Bofala (Browncoffeemoka) is a sensitive, conscientious and mystical artist who is passionate about art history, history, ethnology, culture and spirituality. She is inspired by different forms of art, with care for the environment being absolutely central to her work.
Read more"I seek to enable a soulful giving.I seek to portray our 'oneness', from an Afrocentric perspective.What now excites is the removal of the framed border to move into an immersive medium of possibilities. "
Read moreSharon Adebisi is a self-taught British-Nigerian painter. Her recent work explores the identity issues faced as a British-African hybrid, and the conflict between embracing her African roots, yet assimilating to westernisation.
Read moreElicia is an expressionist specialising in oils and charcoal to create artwork that stimulates a new narrative or an appreciation of her subjects. Her most recent work has been inspired by her love of cars and Black Icons.
Read moreDisrupt Space is a contemporary Black arts agency established to represent emerging visual artists. The inspiration to create Disrupt Space is born of Black community activism. To be specific, it is the self expression of the African Diaspora through the lens of contemporary Black art. Disrupt Space is activism through art. Paul Reid is the founder of Disrupt Space.
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